FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
December 30, 2005
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Media Relations Coordinator
Southcoast Health System
Phone: 508-961-5270
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Scott C. Mirani, MD, receives NECOEM Moore Medical / Harvard Scholarship
NEW BEDFORD, Mass. — Scott C. Mirani, MD, Medical Director of Southcoast
Hospitals’ Occupational Health Services, recently received the prestigious New England College of
Occupational and Environmental Medicine (NECOEM) Moore Medical / Harvard Scholarship. The
award is presented to a licensed practitioner who has been of exceptional service to the specialty of
occupational and environmental medicine. He will attend a weeklong continuing education program
at the Harvard School of Public Health.
Dr. Mirani heads the Southcoast Hospitals Group Occupational Health program which
provides area businesses with comprehensive occupational health and preventative health services
such as pre-employment screenings, employee wellness training, physical rehabilitation, injury
management and follow-up treatment.
He is board certified in physical medicine and rehabilitation and is also subspecialty board
certified in pain management. A graduate of the University of the Philippines, Metro-Manila, Dr.
Mirani received his Doctor of Medicine from the University of the East UERMMMC College of
Medicine Metro-Manila, Philippines. He completed an internship in Internal Medicine at the
University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, Texas, and his residency in Physical Medicine and
Rehabilitation at Wayne State University College of Medicine in Detroit.
He has presented on numerous topics relevant to pain management, myofascial pain,
worker’s compensation issues, and the physical evaluation of the geriatric patient. Dr. Mirani is a
member of the American Academy of Pain Medicine, a fellow of the American Academy of Physical
Medicine and Rehabilitation, and a member of the Physiatric Association of Spine, Sports and
Occupational Rehabilitation.
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Dr. Mirani practices at the Occupational Health Clinics at Charlton Memorial Hospital in Fall
River 508-679-7044 and St. Luke’s Hospital in New Bedford 508-961-5469. He is also part of the
medical practice of Southeast Rehabilitation Associates in Fall River and North Dartmouth. For more
information about Occupational Health services and programs, please visit
www.southcoast.org/occhealth/ or call Southcoast Occupational Health client services at 508-6797044.
Southcoast Health System, a not-for-profit charitable organization, is a community based
health delivery system with multiple access points, offering an integrated continuum of advanced
health services throughout Southeastern Massachusetts and East Bay, Rhode Island. It includes
Southcoast Hospitals Group, formed in 1996 from the merger of Charlton Memorial Hospital in Fall
River, St. Luke's Hospital in New Bedford and Tobey Hospital in Wareham.
Southcoast has more than 40 ancillary facilities, including the Southcoast Health Van, home
health care, hospice and infusion services, numerous outpatient medical services, an assisted living
facility and a wellness center. For more information visit www.southcoast.org.
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